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Voting rights should be proportional to remaining quality-adjusted life years remaining based on life expectancy. I am joking of course, but there is something
by omeid2 2y ago
Voting rights should be proportional to remaining quality-adjusted life years remaining based on life expectancy.
I am joking of course, but there is something to ponder about the growing number of childless people over 40 voting with little concern for the long term.
- Nursie 2y agoAs a childless person over 40, wtf are you talking about? People don't all vote purely on self-interest, some of us vote on how we think human society should be run, and what we think is genuinely best for everyone. Not just for our own immediate bottom line. This whole ageist line of reasoning is pretty offensive.
- kortilla 2y agoIt’s not ageism so much as they are prejudiced against people not raising children. We childless folk have had a quiet 25ish years and now the pendulum seems to be swinging back the other direction. I’ve noticed quite an uptick in memes about childless people being selfish monsters and taking away our voting rights is right in line with that.
- kredd 2y agoDoesn’t really matter when the percentage of childless adults is growing every year. I just scoff and move on.
- omeid2 2y agoExceptio probat regulam.
- Nursie 2y agoNo, I don't believe I am particularly an exception, I believe you're just exhibiting prejudice.
- omeid2 2y agoYes, not a snowflake for sure, but as you say "people don't all vote purely on self-interest" but most do.
- Nursie 2y agoI'm not sure that's particularly true. And it still doesn't come close to justifying taking away someone's input to democracy. I find all these discussions massively distasteful. Also short-sighted because they tend to assume that the age cohort making the claim have more stake in the future, are all of one mind, are thinking long term themselves, or are generally going to do things better. None of these things hold up to much scrutiny AFAICT.
- omeid2 2y agoClaims about "all" are not useful and a distraction from useful understanding of human behaviour. People, like any animal, as a rule, act largely on self-interest. That is with a broad definition of self that includes family --specially offsprings, and larger "identities" like clan, village, city, country, race, creed, religion, and so on.
- Nursie 2y ago> That is with a broad definition of self that includes family --specially offsprings, and larger "identities" like clan, village, city, country, race, creed, religion, and so on. In which case the entire conversation is moot.
- rrrrrrrrrrrryan 2y agoOld people with children vote for policies that favor their specific children. Old people without children vote for policies that favor the next generation.
- omeid2 2y agoNo one cares about a race without a horse in it.
- tgv 2y agoIt's hard to stay polite in discussions where people use the guise of irony to say things they know they shouldn't. You have no evidence for your proposal, and I bet you can't even argue why it would be a net positive, without resorting to prejudice. In case you couldn't quite parse that, I mean: fuck your comment.